Encounters with Aliens on this Day

August 9

1952 - At 10:50 a.m. a military witness named Raley at Chennault Air Force Base, Louisiana saw a disc-shaped object that flew very fast for five minutes, and hovered for two seconds. A
Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. (Sources: Project Blue Book
files counted in official statistics, case # 1870; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 33).

1952 - At 8:57 p.m. local time a U.S. Marine Corps ground control radar in Grid Area K-3, Pohang, Korea
made contact with a moving ball of fire with a stream of flame
travelling at a high rate of speed: 1500 mph. (Source: Richard F.
Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 51).

1955 - A bright object, the apparent size of the Moon, hovered low near the horizon near Moon Lake, Nebraska
for two hours. Nocturnal lights exited from it and flew off to the
north. There were several witnesses from three families. (Source: APRO
Bulletin, August 1955; Larry Hatch, U computer database).

1959 - Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses
had to stop when they ran out of fuel at Sombrero, Magallanes, Chile. At 7:54 p.m. they observed a light swinging in the sky
like a pendulum, and coming closer to the ground. It appeared to be a
large, vertical, ovoid object that made a "whooshing" sound. Its closest
approach was 120 meters. They estimated its dimensions at two meters in
height and 1.5 meters in width. When Uribe aimed his rifle at the object
it went out of sight within seconds. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport
to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 493; Jim & Coral Lorenzen,
UFOs over the Americas, p. 14).

1963 - Harry Bishop, the former major of Mount Vernon, Illinois,
watched a large, bright red oval-shaped light making a "whirring sound"
follow a car along Centralia road. When the car stopped, the UFO
stopped; it hovered for awhile, then moved away at right angles to its
original course. There were a number of other witnesses. Duration: 10
minutes. (Sources: Jeffrey G. Liss, Fate magazine, November 1963, p. 26; APRO Bulletin, January 1964, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 13).

1965 - At around 6:00 p.m. an astronomer and his family were driving in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
when a silvery disc-shaped object with a "ring of bluish white lights"
moved overhead slowly to the south. The object then turned and
accelerated to the east-northeast. He drove up to 80 mph in pursuit,
but it dwindled in size until it resembled a star high in the sky. It
moved up and down several times, then finally darted to the south out
over the Atlantic Ocean. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 66).

1965 - An anonymous music teacher, a "high level public employee", was driving on the outskirts of Lima, Peru
around 10:00 p.m. when his car's engine started to miss, and then stop.
At that moment, a beam of light enveloped the car from above,
then levitated it from the road and carried it through the sky for an
unknown distance, at such an altitude that the witness could see the
coastline and a peninsula, La Punta, west of the city. He was paralyzed
and unable to move during this process. The car was brought to the
ground near the shore and he could hear waves breaking. Then, a voice
spoke to him in perfect Spanish, and asked him to get out of the car.
He did so and "could barely make out" little men with big ears. No UFO
was seen, but there was a luminous screen nearby, on which was
displayed, "We are using calming rays on you to remove your fear." He
then asked several questions, in response to which a spokesperson told
him that they came from a place more distant than Mars, that they had
visited Earth on various occasions in the past, and that they did not
appear in public because that would cause panic. Asked if they knew
about music, he heard they had "something that might be considered as
music, but that it had the power of raising the feelings to the highest
exaltation." After that, his car was transported back through the air
to the spot from which it had been picked up. He told his story to an
uncle, an official in the Peruvian police, who informed reporters.
(Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of
Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-27).

1965 - At around midnight the K. Denver family of three saw a UFO
on the ground at South Myton Bench, Duchesne County, Utah that
stood up like a rocket. The top was flat, with a row of windows below, and
a room inside with bright lights. Rotating flashing lights on top,
orange-red flames on bottom. It rose vertically without a sound, hovered,
then shot up quickly. (Source: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO
Display, p. 17).

1967 - A disc-shaped object about the size of a rugby ball was
sighted by a married couple in Grey Friars, Stattordshire, England
at 2:30 a.m. It flashed blue lights all around its rim, and seemed to be
spinning in time with sound coming from it. It caused their dog to begin
barking. The witnesses reported that they were too frightened to sleep
after their encounter. Later that evening another close encounter occurred
in Weston-on-Trent, England. The witness reported a "dull
penetrating sound," then sighting a red light that moved up, down, and
"all over the place." This witness's dog also whimpered, barked, and
scratched at the door in response to the UFO. The noise persisted
throughout the night, even after the UFO had gone. (Source: Roger H.
Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 6).

1967 - At 11:30 p.m. a bright, cage-like UFO shaped like an
inverted bowl, with a row of yellow lights on its surface, flew over Grand
Rapids, Michigan very fast at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet.
(Source: Grand Rapids Press, August 11, 1967).

1968 - A beam of energy from a disc-shaped object caused the
death of someone on a farm in Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais State,
Brazil at 8:10 p.m. On the same night a round flying object
emitting blue and red lights was sighted in the suburbs of Cerro de la
Gloria, Mendoza province, Argentina. Two dwarves wearing helmets
with bright glowing antennae on their heads exited the landed craft. When
a police office named A. Romero pointed his gun at them, a luminous ray
immobilized him. He was later hospitalized. (Sources: (1) Bob Pratt,
UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 193;
(2) David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid
Reports, case A1565, citing Roberto Enrique Banchs and Cronica,
August 14, 1968).

1972 - A woman teacher was camping out in the yard of a friend's house
in Saint Jean Du Gard, France and had gone out for a walk at 2:30
a.m. when she noticed a white spherical light that appeared to be in a
nearby field. As she stood there watching, she heard footsteps behind her
that sounded like someone walking on the dry grass. When she turned around,
she was confronted by a five-foot tall, robot-like being that was
completely black. Its head was egg-shaped and it had two round white discs
for eyes. The witness felt an unbelievable level of fear and had the
feeling that the being possessed extraordinary powers; it could in fact
control "nature itself." She blacked out and when she recovered found
herself back in her tent with her husband. That same morning a truck
driver named Marcilio was forced to stop his vehicle in the pre-dawn hours
on the Amaral Peixoto Highway in Brazil when the road was blocked
by a UFO sitting on the road with yellow and blue flashing lights. It took
off rapidly. (Sources: (1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database
1968, case # 1102, citing Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the
Universe; (2) Gordon Creighton, FSR, September 1972, p. 26,
citing O Dia, August 9, 1972).

1973 - A father and his son were driving along the
main highway in the Exeter, New Hampshire during the day
when they saw a landed UFO along the side of the highway. A tall humanoid
figure stood next to the object. The witnesses kept driving without
stopping. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of
Humanoid Reports, case 1973-19; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of
the Humanoids).

1977
- At around 1:30 a.m. Police Constable David Swift was investigating an
unusual fog in a nearby fog located in East Hull, Yorkshire, England.
As he crossed the field, he saw three figures who seemed to be dancing
around a non-existent Maypole. Each had an arm raised. "One figure was
a man in a sleveless jerkin and tight-fitting trousers...the other two
were women in bonnets, shawls, and white colored dresses." Thinking
they were drunks, he approached them. At about 50 feet away the entire
scene vanished. "No one was there." He drove about the area in his car,
but found nothing more. He then reported the incident to his sergeant.
(Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Reports; David F. Webb &
Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-44, citing Robert J. Richard, Fortean Times, issue # 23).

1979 - Two white, 30-foot diameter lenticular discs were seen
flying together below an aircraft being flown by the state police
southeast of Hayfork, California at around ten o'clock in the
morning. The discs were hugging the terrain, following the contour of the
land and flying in and out of the canyons below, nearly grazing the
ground. Their speed, when first sighted, was estimated to be 600 miles per
hour, but they accelerated and sped away to the north at 1,500 mph. There
were four witnesses who watched the craft for 20 seconds. (Sources:
Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191;
Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; Richard H.
Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24,
125; UNICAT database, case 47, citing Paul Cerny).

1980 - A few minutes after midnight a Sandia Security detail of
three men, Ferenz, Rist, and Frazier, reported that a disc-shaped object
landed behind the "HQ CR 44" nuclear storage building at Sandia
Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. One of the
security guards drove his jeep into Coyote Canyon and approached on foot.
He had a clear view of the round disc-shaped object at the Manzano Weapons
Storage Area. His radio would not work when he tried to radio for backup.
The UFO shot straight up and away at high speed at the end of the 30
minute encounter. (Sources: Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood,
Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, pp.
224-225; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 406; UNICAT database,
case 373, citing Fawcett & Greenwood).

1983 - A 34-year-old man named Platner saw a UFO in Winifreda,
La Pampa province, Argentina at 7:30 p.m. and followed it in his
van. When he stepped out of his van he was paralyzed by a beam of light.
Four small humanoids wearing diver suits with large round eyes, one of
them a female, emerged from the craft and communicated with him using
telepathy. He was taken aboard the craft, undressed, a blood sample was
taken, and he subsequently became unconscious. When he came to again he
was on top of his van. (Sources: Jane Thomas, FSR, December 1983,
p. 9, citing Diario Popular, August 12, 1983; Thomas E. Bullard,
UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 104, citing
FSR).

1993 - At 5:00 p.m. a very large, fat cigar-shaped object,
"battleship gray" in color, was observed from State Route 150 near
Cherryville, North Carolina just over some trees. It crossed the
highway close to the car without making a sound. Two cars were involved in
the incident. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994).

1996 - At 2:20 a.m. a silent white disc-shaped object with lights followed a car for 6 km near Tavaco, Corse-Sud, France.
It then hovered for over an hour. At the same time there was the
occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European
surveillance area. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 341; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109).

1998 - A couple on a terrace in Cintegabelle, Haute-Garonne, France
witnessed the slow passage of a luminous sphere at around 10 p.m. There
was also unusual behavior by animals, and the total silence of nature.
The sphere silently zigzagged, and disappeared after 5 minutes Another
witness in a distant city saw it, too. (Source; GEIPAN, case # 291).

1999 - On this afternoon at 5:07 p.m. a round white object shot
past SwissAir flight 127 while flying over Long Island, New York at
23,000 feet altitude. It passed to within 400 feet above the airliner. Its
speed was described as "incredibly fast". The USNTA said another aircraft
in the area saw nothing. (Source: Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of
UFOs, p. 173, citing the Toronto Sun).

2001 - A cigar-shaped object, approximately 100 feet long, with lights on each end that changed color, was seen in Calico Rock, Arkansas
at 10 p.m. It also reportedly made the sound of three musical tones.
(Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2001
webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001).

2004
- "Imagine a a 30-foot wide strand of silk in the shape of a perfect
chevron, moving at a constant speed of 25 mph from North to South."
That is what the witness reported seeing at 11:00 a.m. from Squamish, British Columbia. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. (Sources: Geoff
Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2004-564; Peter Davenport,
National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 webpage, report uploaded
October 12, 2001).

2007 - A low flying object that looked like the Concorde (supersonic aircraft) was sighted in Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada
at 7:55 p.m. It was the size of a 50-passenger plane, had no markings
and no windows, and the strange thing is it was flying backwards. (Geoff Dittman, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2007-487, citing NUFORC).